tooth fairy

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   a fairy that is said to leave money at night under a child's pillow to compensate for a baby tooth falling out

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Questions about tooth fairy

What does tooth fairy mean?

tooth fairy means "a fairy that is said to leave money at night under a child's pillow to compensate for a baby tooth falling out".

Is tooth fairy a common word?

tooth fairy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.